If the US doesn't hold a hard line on this issue I'm going to vomit, slash my wrists, pop a hundred tylenol 3's, and jump from a bridge while shooting myself in the head.

We shouldn't negotiate, or push Japan to roll over. We tell China to fuck off and lease a couple of those islands from Japan just to piss China off. Then we really piss them off and offer bids to Japan for drilling rights.